Thank you Father for your continual help. Thank you for your closeness and joy that is ours despite our circumstances. Thank you for your many promises. And thank you to all of you for your walking with us these past 5 years. I have been thinking about concluding this blog. I initially started my blog ... Continue Reading
In the loving arms of Jesus
Thank you Father for being here in our sorrow and anguish, thank you for your community who comes along beside us in our darkest hour. Thank you all for your love and prayers. It is with a sad and mourning heart, yet a joyous heart that Jesus came to take Theresa home with Him at ... Continue Reading
We tread on holy ground
Thank you Father for answered prayers, for your Spirit’s work in our hearts and minds. Thank you all for your faithful prayers, for your comments, and holding us up in prayer. It has been a difficult week. Theresa continues to decline. She sleeps or rests 22-23 hours a day, waking up or alerting when talked ... Continue Reading
Rapid turn of events
Father, thank you for your love, for walking with us, for your peace, and helping us praise you no matter what life brings our way. Thank you all for your continued prayers. Well this week was unexpected. Theresa rallied for our trip to California, and was worn out when we got home. But within a ... Continue Reading
Disney
Thank you Father for your mercy and grace. Thank you for your kindness toward us and for answered prayer. Thank you all for all of your prayers and concerns. We have returned from our trip and all went well, thanks to your prayers. We flew out to California on Sunday and came home last night. ... Continue Reading
Echo – negligible effusion
Father, thank you for your continued blessings. We have grateful for the time you have given us, what you are teaching us, and for your continued presence. Thank you all for walking with us in this journey. Life got so busy this past week that I didn’t get to update the blog and for that ... Continue Reading
Anti-Androgen medications
Father thank you for your continued watch and care over us, for your little miracles and sustaining presence. Thank you all for your continued thoughts and prayers. Theresa has been on Casodex now for two weeks and on Xtandi now for over a week. Both are anti-androgen medications. Casodex has been around for a while ... Continue Reading
A Grief Observed
Thank you Father for your grace and tender mercy. Thank you all for your prayers. For over a week now Theresa has been on the anti-androgen medication. She saw her oncologist who thought if it was to work, she would have had a more dramatic response. On Monday he will add one more anti-androgen pill, ... Continue Reading
“All is well” in spite of it all
Thank you Father for your reassurance that “all is well” as you are in charge, engaged in all that is going on in all of our lives. Thank you for your continued presence. Thank you all for walking with us, your continued prayers, and kind words. Well it has been a rough week. Our oncologist ... Continue Reading
PET Scan
Father, thank you for your mercy and grace. Thank you that your are for us, walk with us in all of life and that you are sovereign over all. Thank you all for continuing to walk with us and pray for us. This past week Theresa’s coughing got progressively worse and her chest pain has ... Continue Reading